R.B. ANDERSON - Dr. J. C. Maxwell was preparing to start for California Friday [04/18/1930] morning in response to a dispatch telling of the critical illness of his brother-in-law, R. B. Anderson, when he received a second dispatch stating that Mr. Anderson had passed away at 12:35 o’clock, midnight, at the home of his cousin, Mrs. Myra Whittington of Los Angeles, formerly of Lanark. Mr. Anderson, whose home is at 311 Ninth avenue, went to California two months ago to spend the late winter and early spring. He had not been in robust health but was not thought to be seriously ill. The news of his death will bring deep sorrow and regret to many relatives and friends in this city and vicinity. Mr. Anderson had lived most of his 73 years in this community and was highly regarded by all who knew him. He was a brother of Alex Anderson of the Polo road and his wife, who preceded him in death six years ago, was Agnes Maxwell before her marriage, a sister to Dr. J. C. Maxwell and A. J. Maxwell of this city, Joseph Maxwell of Coleta and William H. Maxwell of Palmyra. The funeral of R. B. Anderson will take place at the East Jordan church at 3 o’clock Thursday [04/24/1930] afternoon, Rev. George McClanathan officiating. There will be a brief family service of prayer at his late residence, 311 Ninth avenue, Sterling, at 2 o’clock, following which the body will be taken to East Jordan. The committal will be in the East Jordan churchyard. R. [Raynold] B. Anderson was born in Woosung township, Ogle county, Ill., Dec. 29, 1856. He died in Los Angeles, Calif., April 18, 1930, aged 73 years, three months and 20 days. Mr. Anderson was the son and only child of David and Ellen Wilber Anderson. He was married to Agnes Maxwell of Jordan township on March 20, 1878, who preceded him in death six years ago. One son, Royce, was born to their union. He died at the age of 12 years. Mr. Anderson obtained his early education in the rural schools of Ogle county. He followed the occupation of farming. He and his wife lived the greater part of their lives on a farm in Woosung township. Later they retired from the farm and moved to Sterling, having their home at 311 Ninth avenue. Mr. Anderson was a charter member of the East Jordan United Brethren church and for several years was superintendent of the Sunday school. For a number of years he had been spending the winter months in California. Last winter he went to Long Beach and became very sick and he later removed to Los Angeles and remained with his cousin, Mrs. Myra Wilber Whittington. On the early morning of April 18 he passed away. Obituary - Raynold B. Anderson was born Dec. 29, 1856, on what has been known for years in all this community, the “Anderson Homestead” in Woosung township, Ogle Co. Ill. Among the pioneers of Scotch ancestry who settled in the southwestern part of Ogle county in the middle of the last century, were his parents, David and Ellen Wilbur Anderson, the father having emigrated as a young man from Scotland and the mother being born of English ancestry in New York state. There were married at the old “Wilbur homestead,” a few miles southeast of Polo. “Raynee” as his parents affectionately called him, was their only child. With the exception of one period of schooling in Lanark, when he lived with his grandparents, his educational advantages were received in the rural schools near his home, and they were limited because school was carried on only during the winter months. Mr. Anderson united in marriage to Miss Agnes Lucy Maxwell of Jordan township, Whiteside county on March 20, 1878, Rev. John Dodson performing the ceremony at the bride’s home. To them only one child, a son Royce, was born June 18, 1885, who died June 21, 1897. One of the really pathetic phases of Mr. Anderson’s death is that he is the last of his own family as he is the last of his parents family, they having preceded him in death, the father, at Sterling, April 23, 1916 at the age of 87, and the mother a few months later the same year, Nov. 29, at about the same age. The nearest living relative on his father’s side is a first cousin, Mr. Alex Anderson of Polo, and three or four cousins on his mother’s side among whom a re Mrs. Myra Wilbur Whittington of Los Angeles, Cal., in whose home Mr. Anderson died on Good Friday and Mrs. Luther Wheelock, of Rock Falls, who is a second cousin. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Anderson made their home on a farm in Woosung township Ogle county, just across the line north from Whiteside county and here they lived for thirty-seven years, laboring industriously together and prospering greatly in material possessions. In 1914 they retired from farming and moved to Sterling, where they built a beautiful home at 311 Ninth Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were received by letters of dismissal from the East Jordan U. B. Church into the membership of St. John’s Lutheran church, Sterling, July 23, 1916. Mr. Anderson and his mother had been charter members of the East Jordan U. B. church, and he was superintendent of the Bible school for five or six years preceding his cousin’s Alex Anderson’s incumbency in that office which he has held for many years. This devoted couple were separated, when death claimed Mrs. Anderson on Sept. 18, 1923, at the age of sixty-seven years. Since her home going, life has truly been more lonely for Mr. Anderson, who was inclined to be restless in his grief. They had alternated in spending their winter months in Florida and Southern California, and while Mr. Anderson continued to go, the places were not the same with his loving companion absent. For a year or more he had not enjoyed the best of health, and it was with considerable hesitation that he decided to spend the latter part of the past winter in Long Beach, Cal., leaving Sterling on Feb 3. After he became ill, he went to his cousin’s in Los Angeles, intending to return home to Sterling the week before his death. Before he left, he had his earthly home thoroughly cleaned and now just he body hath been returned to it, and his soul hath returned to God who gave it. There is no necessity for any encomium concerning Mr. Anderson’s character, for the very presence of this large concourse of friends who knew him as a neighbor for so many years, is a tribute far more sincere than any I might give. In connecting his death with that of our Savior’s on Good Friday, we have given the great and only source of blessed and abiding comfort, who said as His last words, “Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”
Contributed by Larry Reynolds from the Sterling Gazette April 18, 22 and 26, 1930

RALPH E. ANDERSON - 70, Oak Park died Monday at Hot Springs, Ark. The body was brought to the Howard Johnson Funeral Home in Manlius. Funeral services will be conducted at the funeral home Friday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Robert Engen, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Manlius, officiating. Burial will be in the Tampico Cemetery. Mr. Anderson was married to the former Bessie Scott, who preceded him in death.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - Sterling Gazette April 4, 1957 - Thursday, pg 2

ROY BERGER ANDERSON , 80, RR 1, Morrison, a retired railroad employee, died (December 17, 1974) Tuesday afternoon in Pleasant View Nursing home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Renkes-Reynolds Funeral Home in Morrison with the Rev. Lawrence Anderson of Prophetstown officiating. Burial will be in Grove Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Roy Anderson was born Nov. 10, 1894 in Union Grove Township, the son of Nels August and Matilda Pearson Anderson. He attended Dixon schools and was a member of the Bethesda Lutheran Church of Morrison and the American Legion. He was a veteran of World War I and an employee of the Chicago NorthWestern Railroad until retiring in 1956. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Ralph (Marie) Pease of Morrison and one brother, Earl Anderson of Morrison. He was preceded by his parents, three brothers and one sister.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois December 18, 1974 - Wednesday, pg 8

MRS. SWAN ANDERSON , passed away at 3 o'clock at her home in Prophetstown Wednesday morning after a several weeks' illness. She was born November 10, 1850, in Wernano, Sweden and was united in marriage to Swan Anderson on July 17, 1874. They came to America in 1883 and settled in Bureau county, Illinois. Nine children were born to the couple, two of whom, Augusta and Christine died in infancy. Mrs. Anderson is survived by her husband and the following children, Mrs. Charles Johnson, John, Elizabeth, Charles, Frank and Ralph Anderson. Funeral services will be held at one o'clock Friday afternoon at the Swedish Lutheran Church in Prophetstown. Rev. Nordale will officiate and interment will be made in Riverside cemetery.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - The Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illinois November 10, 1926 - Wednesday, pg 2

THOMAS ROBERT ANDERSON , 8, died Monday evening (29 Aug 1983) at Community General Hospital the result of injuries sustained in a car-bicycle accident. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the First Lutheran Church, Prophetstown, with the Rev. Quentin Fleming, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Prophetstown Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday at the Gardner Chapel. Memorials may be made to either Winning Wheels or Cub Scout Pack 332. Thomas Anderson was born on Nov. 6, 1974 in Peoria the son of Robert C. and Dianne Johnson Anderson. He was currently a fourth grade student at Prophetstown Grade School and a member of Cub Scout Pack 332. Surviving are his parents; one sister, Susan Dianne, at home; maternal grandparents, Ruth and Oliver Johnson, Varna; and paternal grandparents, Avilla and Harold Anderson, Prophetstown
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - Sterling Gazette August 30, 1983 - Tuesday, pg A4

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